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Evidence-based Practice Online Course

Evidence-Based Practice in the Health Sciences

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Evidence-Based Nursing

The following tutorial is designed to support both curriculum-based EBP instruction and the ongoing education of practicing professionals.

The tutorial consists of five instructional modules:

  • Introduction to Evidence-Based Nursing
  • Structure of literature
  • Research design
  • Searching the literature
  • Evaluating the quality of research

You may proceed through the modules sequentially or go directly to the modules that interest you most.
 

Evidence-Based Medicine Tutorials

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Lamar Soutter Library

After completing these exercises you should be able to:

  1. Define a Clinical Question
  2. Translate a Clinical Question into a Searchable Question
  3. Decide on the Best Type of Study to Address the Question
  4. Perform a Literature Search in PubMed

Introduction to Evidence-Informed Decision Making

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National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools

This module is designed to be done sequentially, but does not have to be completed at one go! Take a break and come back to the next section.

As you work through this module some of the language and concepts that are discussed may be new to you. Take your time to become familiar with new terminology; each key term is hyperlinked to a glossary.

Estimated total time: 3.5-5 hours

Evidence-Based Practice Lecture

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University of Kentucky Hospital

Learning Objectives:

- To understand the concept of Evidence-based practice
- To understand the importance of evidence-based practice in the clinical setting

Performance Objectives:

Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine Tutorial

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Duke University Medical Center

This tutorial is intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine.

Upon completion of this self-paced tutorial, you will be able to:

  • define Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)

  • identify the parts of a well-built clinical question

  • identify EBM searching strategies that could improve MEDLINE retrieval

  • identify key issues that help determine the validity of the results of a study

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